{"id":85266,"date":"2025-08-21T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85266\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:42:11","slug":"james-morgan-to-start-for-alouettes-against-blue-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85266\/","title":{"rendered":"James Morgan to start for Alouettes against Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/james-morgan\/165173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"James Morgan\">James Morgan<\/a> will start for the Alouettes in Week 12 against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/static.cfl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/GM-11-MONTREAL-DEPTH-CHART.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced via depth chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan took over for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/caleb-evans\/165860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Caleb Evans\">Caleb Evans<\/a> in Week 11 after the pivot left the game with an injury and threw for 211 yards, one touchdown and one interception.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/08\/19\/caleb-evans-out-for-season-als-sign-qb-shea-patterson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caleb Evans out for season; Als sign QB Shea Patterson<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/08\/18\/amsoil-power-rankings-who-is-at-the-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/08\/18\/amsoil-power-rankings-who-is-at-the-top\/\" aria-label=\"AMSOIL Power Rankings: Who is at the top? - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->AMSOIL Power Rankings: Who is at the top?<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s official YouTube channel - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\">Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s official YouTube channel<\/a><br role=\"presentation\"\/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/newsletter\/\" data-uw-original->Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evans has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/08\/19\/caleb-evans-out-for-season-als-sign-qb-shea-patterson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">suffered a torn right ACL<\/a> and is out for the rest of the season. Morgan will be the fourth starting quarterback for the Alouettes in 2025, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/davis-alexander\/165844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Davis Alexander\">Davis Alexander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/mcleod-bethel-thompson\/158493\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"McLeod Bethel-Thompson\">McLeod Bethel-Thompson<\/a> also missing time for Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The Als (5-5) are currently on a three-game losing streak as they prepare to face the Blue Bombers on Thursday, August 21, 7:30 p.m. ET, at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium. Canadian fans can watch the game on TSN and RDS. U.S. fans can watch on CBSSN and International fans can sign up to watch on CFL+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Quarterback James Morgan will start for the Alouettes in Week 12 against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-85266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}